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Look out. Sunday night may be the night for Boston's finest jazz concert of the year. On the outside it looks fairly stellar--Sun Ra and His Humanitarian Arkestra playing two shows at the Boston Center for the Arts...
...there is any area that is clearly a Crimson strength, it's the goaltending. All-American Brian Petrovik is back, and his capable back-up, John Aiken, also returns. Petrovek was by far the nation's finest college goalie last year, recording an under 3.00 goals against average for the season...
...bear on the wasteland. Before long he had transformed it into an earthly paradise, a resort complete with a luxury hotel and detached villas, two of the world's best golf courses, an Olympic-size swimming pool, a discotheque and a restaurant that served Mexico's finest French food, prepared by Emmanuel de Camp, once a chef at Maxim's. Post seemed close to achieving his ultimate vision: an ultra-exclusive preserve where the powerful and wealthy could retreat to cavort and contemplate...
...screenwriter (the intriguing Hickey and Boggs, Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway). Director Hill's debut is controlled and fairly confident; working at his peak, he gives a strong taste of the heel-end poverty of the times. Hill is also responsible for Charles Branson's finest performance to date. If this seems a modest compliment, Hard Times is evidence that there may be larger ones...
What does the smile of the native optimist have to do with the groan from the cross? What cement will join a world of plastic to a world of Gothic stone? These are the persistent questions of J.F. Powers (Morte D'Urban), with Flannery O'Connor the finest American writer on Catholic themes. Powers' new group of short stories provides no answer, only a cosmic sigh...